Belt-fastener



Patented Mar. 12, 1889.

E. L. BUDLONG.

BELT FASTENER m FTI IFI F |8535 Slm@ ' (No Model.)

TTED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

EDIVARD L. BUDLONG, OF BOIVMANVILLE, ILLINOIS.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent No. 399,489, dated March 12, 1889.

Application filed December l0, 1888. Serial No. 293,179. (No model.)

fully described with reference to the aecomi panying drawings, in which- Fignre I represents a plan of my device,

which consists ot' the plate A, which may be i cast. or made et malleable iron, or ot' anyy other suitable material, provided with a seri ot teeth l. made ot an t suitable material on the outer edge ot the same, and a central slight ridge or mark, C, which serves as ai guide in placing' the two ends of the belt upon the plate when they are to be fastened in l position; Fig. 2, a like view ol' the same, exl cept that in this view there are two series of l strain upon the belt when in use, and hence 3, a side edge view of the plate A with teeth extending up therefrom; Fig. 4, an end edge like teeth on each side edge ot the plate; Fig.

view ot the plate with teeth extending upward from each side edge; Fig. 5, a longitudi nal sectional view of the two ends of the belt abutting together on the plate A, with one tooth from each side ot' the plate embedded in the material of the ends of the belt, their points being bent diagonally across the meeting edges ot the belt. The points are bent thus because ot' their chisel form in the act ot' forcing the ends ot' the belt down upon the teeth until Jhey bury their entire lengths in the same; Fig. o', a cross-section ot' one end ot' the belt on the plate, so taken as to expose to view an entire series ot' teeth eml the plate and opposite to each other, would, if

their inner edges were extended, meet at the long median line and form an angle more remote from its transverse axis than their bases. The teeth are broad, fiat, and chiselpointed, and stand with their faces diagonally across the plate, the result of which construction of the teeth and their arrangement upon the plate is that when the ends of the belt are forced down upon the teeth the teeth will assume the form of hooks, as shown in Figs. 5, (i, and '7, and strain the two ends ot' the belt in the direction of each other, and the material of cac-h end of it in the direction of its long median line, and thus prevent the ends from spreading laterally and from parting where they join each other 011 the plate.

lVhen the material ot the belt is strtmg, a single series ot teeth on each edge of the plate will be sullcient; but when the material is not of that character two series may be advisable, shown in Fig.

'lhe teeth are set diagonally to the line oi' their broad sides present a greater resisting surface to the material of the same, and their i side edges do not cut across and weaken it to the same extent they would do it' they stood squarely across it and in the line oi' strain upon it.

That I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The plate A, provided on each of its side edges with series of chisel-formed teeth B, the teeth standing at an inclination tothe sides of the plate, the teeth on the two ends having an opposite inclination to each other adapted when the two ends'ol' the belt are driven down upon them to draw the abutting ends ot' the same together and prevent lateral spreading thereot', substantially as described.

2. In combination with the plate A, having series of chisel-formed teeth on each outer edge thereof, and having'the diagonal inclination to said side edges specified, the teeth B, adapted to be bent into the form of hooks in the act of forcing the ends of the belt down upon the same, substantially as described.

EDlVARD I.. BUDLONG.

lVitnesses: i

M. L. THoeKABEERv, MAoUs KING. 

